BELIEVE

With this CD, Pendragon changed notably their sound, deriving towards a rawer and dispersed mixture, not so sweetened like before (though always within the domains of symphonic rock), but in any case they continue appearing as authentic teachers. The evolution showed by Pendragon is a good answer for all those who talk about prog or symphonic rock as immobilist, antiquated or repetitive. It might be said that the British band has entered into their third musical stage, quite far from their confused beginning (The Jewel and Kowtow) and evolving from the second phase of compositive and instrumental consolidation and popular recognition (The World, The window of life , The masquerade overture and Not of this world ). They've surpassed the neo-prog step. Now, their songs are not over 7 minutes long and incorporate narrative, enigmatic, ethnic elements, which, close to the acoustic guitar, dominate over the rhythm, the keyboards or the electrical guitar, though often we can listen to sections with great drum work and intense, deep guitar solos similar to those from previous works, appearing as bridges stretched between their previous record and the current one to help ourselves to giving the step advance that Pendragon propose us in this Believe. Interesting, but a little bit raw.